I don't know Thor at all, but apparently, if you can handle the hammer, you are Thor. Not sure what that means for the fate of the original hammer-swinger though. Maybe they become a dynamic duo? He didn't die, did he?

you know, thor actually was my favorite character back when i was a marvel-head... around three decades ago.

i like mythology a lot, and they did a run of around 270 - 301 (like three years!) that was heavily inspired by norse mythos and the nibelungen saga.

around that time i had the fortune to buy the very first titled thor (in mediocre condition), but left it back in philly like a doofus.

TBH most thor issues were pretty weak until that amazing run walt simonson did on it for a while. that was the one where thor got turned in to a frog, had his face mauled by hel, and wound up with odin being killed-- for a while, i suppose, since few ever stay dead in the marvel universe!